The Feather Thief

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Kirk Wallace Johnson
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Making Meat: Race, Labor, and the Kansas City Stockyards

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John Herron
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In the Attempt Is the Success: A Poet's Way of Life

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Molly Peacock
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Eisenhower: Becoming the Leader of the Free World

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Louis Galambos
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A Conversation With Tom Barbash

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Tom Barbash, Whitney Terrell
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Women's Rights, Family Values, and the Polarization of American Politics

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Marjorie J. Spruill
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Defiance: ‘A Monument to My Brother’

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The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age

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Leo Damrosch
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The Jewish American Paradox: Embracing Change in a Changing World

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Robert H. Mnookin
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Most Hallowed Ground: Arlington Cemetery and the Tomb of the Unknowns

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Tom Tudor
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The Middle East and World War II

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Brian Steed
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Building Resilient Cities

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Matthijs Bouw
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Who Will Lead KC?

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Election 2019
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Yes, We Can! Immigrant Women and Their Influence on Kansas City

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Sandra Enriquez
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Islam's Eternal Struggle: Interfaith Marriage

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Nina Safran
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Kessler's Historic Parks and Boulevards: A Green Framework for a Great Kansas City

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Kurt Culbertson
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The Challenges of Reading in a Digital Age

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Maryanne Wolf
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Mozart and Handel: The Makings of Genius

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Jane Glover
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Echoes of Grant: The Second World War Leadership of Dwight Eisenhower

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John McManus
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From Around Here

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Ann Friedman, Lara Shipley, Jose Faus, & Rekha Sharma-Crawford
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On Writing, on Race

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Anthony Grooms, DaMaris Hill, Whitney Terrell
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Melting Pot or Civil War?

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Reihan Salam
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The New Localism

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Bruce Katz
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Charting America's Economic Course

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Esther George
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